Coaches Corner:

Congratulations to the Northampton Cudas on their WIN Saturday May 21 against the Imperial Oaks Seals.  It was a tough meet but we were victorious! 

The final score was 777 to 706!

WAY TO GO CUDAS! The swimmers looked great, many best times, and numerous winning races!

New Cuda records

Broke against Windrose:

10 & under boys 50 free- Will LeBlanc- 31.29

10 & under girls 50 free- Madyson Chebret- 35.10

9-10 boys 25 breast- Will LeBlanc- 16.81

13-14 girls medley relay (Riley Johnson, Olivia LeBlanc, Zoe Uehlinger, and Genevieve Manning) - 2:03.59

Broke against Imperial Oaks:

13-14 girls medley relay (Riley Johnson, Olivia LeBlanc, Lizzy Cooper, and Genevieve Manning) broke the 2016 new Cuda record! - 2:02.46

11-12 girls 50 breast- Annie LeBlanc- 34.45

10 & under boys 50 free- Brody Johnson- 30.56

Thank you to all of our hard working Assistant Coaches, Volunteers, and Junior Coaches that help make this team GREAT!

Let’s get to practice to prepare and focus on our next meet against STONE GATE- AWAY- Saturday May 28th!  This will be a tough meet, everyone be ready for a good match up Saturday against the Gators!

DIRECTIONS:

The meet is located at 11655 Green Canyon Drive, Houston, TX 77095

Located near Cy Fair area. The fastest way to get there is via the Grand Parkway. You can exit Telge, Cypress-Rosehill, or 290 to get to the meet.

DO NOT TRUST APPLE MAPS! It can send you almost to Pearland. USE GOGGLE MAPS ONLY!!!

SWIM MEETS:All swimmers must declare whether or not they will swim in our first dual meet against STONE GATE by Tuesday, May 24.  We need your swimmer at the meet! You MUST declare COMMITTED or NOT ATTENDING. Go ahead and declare for all of the dual meets!

Log onto your account at http://northamptoncudas.swim-team.us/

· Under the ‘Swim Meets’ tab, select ‘Cuda Meets’.

· If you ARE attending the meet, click on the box that looks like a swimmer.

.Under the ‘Swim Meets’ tab, select ‘Cuda Meets’.

· Once a swimmer is selected, click on ‘Add Entry’ on the right side of the page.

· A list of all eligible events for your swimmer will appear, click on all of the events to add them for your swimmer. 

*Maximum of 3 events only

*Your swimmer must have a time in the event entered

*Coaches have discretion to change an event for a swimmer

· Click 'SAVE' to save the declaration.

· Repeat for each of your swimmers attending the meet.

· If you ARE NOT attending the meet, click on the box labeled ‘RSVP’

· Next to the word ‘Attendance’ choose the ‘No’ box.

· Click 'SAVE' to save the declaration.

We are looking forward to our 3rd dual meet!  All swimmers will need to be at the pool, checked in and ready to swim by 7:00 am.  We have first warm-up at 7:15 a.m.! The meet should end by 2:00 pm.  Meet days are long and hot, but they can also be a lot of fun!  Be sure to sign up to volunteer, which makes the meet run more smoothly and it's also more fun!  

 

Important Information:

Meet entries: Coach Laura will review the meet entries for Saturday May 28. She might adjust your swimmer’s events to create the best scoring line up for the team.

Relay Information: Relays are being finalized for the meet this Saturday.  We can only enter 3 relay teams (12 swimmers) male and female in each age group.  Relays are picked by time only and if the swimmer can legally do the stroke.  At time trials every swimmer got a time in every stroke.  However, that doesn’t mean they swam the stroke legally.  We are working on getting all Cudas legal in all 4 strokes.  Please understand that we need to pick the best choices for the relays so we can go for the win and have some fun.  The relays will possibly change every meet as every swimmer improves meet to meet.  We have a large team and I do my best to accommodate everyone, make it fun, recognize and guide every swimmer, and play by the rules.

If you are planning to show up to the meet late or need to leave early at any future meets, please let me know for relay purposes by Tuesday night.  If you are on relay teams A, B, or C in each age group you are expected to be at the meet and stay throughout. Thank you for your cooperation.

 

Cudas of the Week 05/16- 05/21/16:

6 and Under Girl: Grace Hanson,6 & Under Boy: Brooks Johnson

7-8 Girl: Kylie Hehr, 7-8 Boy: Robby Marino

9-10 Girl: Jillian Kimball, 9-10 Boy: Nehemiah Huff

11-12 Girl: Abby Davis, 11-12 Boy: Jack Burns

13-14 Girl: Taryn Kooyers, 13-14 Boy: Trace Andrews

15-18 Girl: Tina Ellison, 15-18 Boy: Jeremy Laird

Junior Coach of the Week: Riley Johnson & Callie Mills

Way to go CUDAS!

 

Invitational Meet Qualifiers

Congratulations to all of the Cuda swimmers for our second win of the season! Many Cudas swam personal best times and qualified for the Invitational Swim Meets.

The Cudas are attending 4 Invitational Meets this year:

Sprint Sizzler – June 5-6, 2016 – location: Klein Oak High School – Cudas are a host of this meet, if your swimmer attends, you must volunteer for one shift.

Pentathlon – June 12, 2016 – location: Klein Collins High School

*** all swimmers MUST compete in 5 events (Fly, Back, Breast, Free, IM) ***

All Star – June 25-26, 2016 – location: Klein High School

Ponderosa – June 25-26, 2016 – location: Klein Oak High School

For the Cuda swimmers who have qualified for an invitational meet; participation is optional but encouraged. Each meet requires extra fees for participation.

CHECK IT OUT! - The swimmers who have qualified for Invitational Meets are linked on the home page of the website: http://northamptoncudas.swim-team.us/

If you have questions, please contact Kristi Davis – [email protected]

 

10 year swimmers: Contact our Award committee head, Jackson Cannon at  [email protected].  

Let Jackson know if your swimmer is hitting 10 years with the Cudas this year.  Jackson will need old photo of the swimmer at a younger age.  Swimmer will get special recognition at the end of year award ceremony. 

 

Do you have a graduating Senior???

Don't forget to print out the scholarship form from the website and turn into Derek Lund at [email protected] no later than Friday June 17th!

 

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